Vera came to us for two nights when our little girl had just turned 8 months... .Vera came to us for two nights when our little girl had just turned 8 months old and had been going through a rough few weeks of sleep. Try as we might my husband and I couldn’t get to the bottom of what was going wrong - she had been a good sleeper from 5 to 7 months and then almost overnight she started to refuse to go down for her daytime naps and started waking and crying every ten to twenty minutes after we had put her down at 7pm, eventually settling at about 11pm. It felt like we were back with a new-born. I was lost without our routine and felt like our baby was asking for something different - but I didn’t know what! And then Vera arrived… and she was amazing! I was initially a little apprehensive about some of the suggestions Vera made but quickly realised that if I wasn’t committed to her advice then I would never know if it would work. Needless to say after following her suggested daytime routine within one night our daughter had dropped her dream feed, within two nights she slept soundly from 7pm to 6.30am, and by day three she was starting to self settle for her daytime naps. What a dramatic change in such a short space of time!Vera helped me to understand that our daughter no longer needed so much sleep during the day and so we cut down her day time naps, we have been giving her more water to quench her thirst and cutting down on her bottle feeds so that she is hungrier at mealtimes. Vera encouraged me to stay strong and remember that our daughter would be much more settled when I was clear with her about when she was going to sleep, when she was eating etc and making sure to stick with the routine for at least a couple of weeks until it had become second nature to our baby. We are just a week in but there is a great difference already to our family dynamic and my confidence as a Mum has returned.I would highly recommend Vera if you need any help with your baby’s sleep. She has a plethora of knowledge, is passionate about her work and looked after us and our baby incredibly well. She is a rare find! .
Ella
